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Featuring RU/YVAA artist in residence Aleksandar Ostojić, recipient of the 2024 Milčik Award, in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Aleksandar Ostojić is a visual artist exploring material transformation, space, and memory. His interdisciplinary practice merges installation, video, and sound. In collaboration with Aleksandra Aranitović, developed “Overburden / Scopertura”, a selection from a larger project about their hometown, Pljevlja, in Montenegro. The name of Pljevlja originates from chaff (in Montenegrin: pleva, pljeva), referencing previously agricultural landscapes that have changed to those of open-pit mines. The two images from private archives depict a striking change resulting from more than seventy years of lignite exploitation. They take a holistic approach, digging deeper into the layers of Pljevlja’s identity and the stories of its inhabitants, which are intertwined with those of the mine. For this reason, the installation also presents interviews with two former employees of the Pljevlja Coal Mine. The project points out the paradoxical state – shutting the mine down would result in economic collapse and dramatic changes for Pljevlja and its residents; however, it continues to have destructive effects on the population’s health, environment, and the town.
✨ Aleksandar Ostojić will be on view in the exhibition “[In]Convenient [Short]Cuts” on Governors Island, opening on October 11. Come see it at the RU House at 404B Colonels Row!
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